Problems with tty localization.

elhreno · 02-25-2017, 01:33 PM

Hello!

I'm trying to localize my Slackware 14.2 to Russian and everything works just fine except the tty. I modified rc.font like this:

Code:

setfont -v LatArCyrHeb-16
for n in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do
  echo -en "\033%G" > /dev/tty$n
done

But I only have Russian language in tty1, all others are showing squares where Cyrillic symbols are. Keyboard layout works fine everywhere, I had no problems with X, even man pages were localized without any problems.

What is my problem with fonts? Maybe something gets started after the script runs, but actually needs to be started before? How do I check it and fix it?

Gerard Lally · 02-25-2017, 02:12 PM

Do you have the following in /etc/lilo.conf:

Code:

append=" vt.default_utf8=1"

?

And an appropriate entry in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh:

Code:

export LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8

?

(setenv LANG ru_RU.UTF-8 if you use a C shell.)

bassmadrigal · 02-26-2017, 06:41 PM

Have you seen slint? It started out as a project for Slackware i18n, but recently the developer (Didier Spaier, a frequent forum poster here), decided to branch out a bit more to better support international users, and it was enough that it shouldn't continue being a "Slackware project". But it is still essentially Slackware, but with much better support for non-English languages.

He states Russian is supported:

Quote:

Slint is available, from installation, in Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian

jostber · 02-27-2017, 09:24 PM

Check out this for the Russian font setup:

https://www.slax.org/blog/19578-Cons...ymappings.html

Didier Spaier · 02-28-2017, 08:23 AM

Well, in a plain Linux console you can display a set of at most 512 glyphs (as provided by LatArCyrHeb-16 for instance), there is no way to overcome this limitation.

To display available glyphs in some font in a tty, load it then type "showconsolefont".

But you could use a framebuffer terminal like fbterm. Then you can display as many glyphs as you like, as under X. Run in a tty "fbterm -h" then for instance "fbterm -s 16". Ctrl+d or "exit" to go back to the standard tty.

GazL · 03-01-2017, 07:19 AM

One thing I've encountered in the past is that if you don't use setfont early enough in the boot then it only gets applied to the active virtual console. You can use setfont with the -C option in a loop to apply it to all consoles, but just moving it to an earlier point in the boot appears to make that unnecessary. I've started including it in the module load for the video driver like this:

Code:

# /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf

# Use an install rule to make sure that the fonts are loaded
# when the video driver module is.
#  (If you use this, then you will want to chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.font)
#

install i915 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install i915 $CMDLINE_OPTS  &&  /usr/bin/setfont ter-122b

The approach also works for nouveau.